MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Universal Postal Union, Telefilm Canada, Canada Council
Document Summary
Overview of today: thinking about technology, technology and western society, media convergence, the internet and digitalization. Introduction: communications policy is established by international regulatory bodies and national and regional governments to ensure that media serve not only their owners and content creators, but individual citizens and society, some important distinctions to keep in mind: Policy as a set of guiding ideas and practices. Canada and the canada council: challenges to enacting policy: fiscal, technological and philosophical. To prevent the circulation of illegal materials. To protect financial data, etc: communications policy is a by-product of global contact between peoples, companies and governments, examples of early international communications agreements: Berlin radio convention, 1906: recognition of intellectual property: Begin with the invention of the printing press. Early copyright laws were only nation in scope (foreign works not protected) Beme convention (1886) was the first international agreement: preventing media imperialism. Unesco is a forum for discussion of communications issues.
